Okay, well I have total faith in Modest Mouse, so as long as the album is exactly how they want it and not how someone else made them make it, I won't go and kill anybody just yet. Except maybe the keyboardist... I still don't like him... --Audrey > >From: "Mark Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: initial reaction (not so sugar-coated) >Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:17:18 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I can see people not digging the new album, it does sound a lot >different from their older stuff. But make no mistake, M&A sounds >EXACTLY like Isaac and the band want it to sound, it has nothing to do >with what Epic wants. Brian Deck, the guy who produced the album, is the >architect behind the Red Red Meat sound (which two guys from Califone >are in) a sound (and band) that Isaac happens to love. Brian Deck has >never, to my knowledge, had a major-label production credit before, in >fact I think he's only produced a few of those Perishable bands (oRSo, >Drumhead) that no one has ever listened to. So whatever you think of the >sound of the new album, don't for a second think it had anything to do >with what Epic wanted. Isaac loves that fuller sound and he worked with >guys whom he thought could help him get it. He was sick of that thin, >K/Up/KRS business, and I don't blame him.
